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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At times the officers of the Crown were worsted by large and desperate bands of armed malefactors.
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Due to its generous Proportions it was Put to use on malefactors after its original owner had no further use for it.
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It was the utterly excellent Yahweh who told the malefactors to go to hell.
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Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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The earl had gone on ahead in order to round up malefactors and provide the court with some impressive numbers for trial.
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The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors.